How the IWB will achieve its aims

IWB will initially seek to fund innovative technologies to enhance the anti-poaching detection and elimination.

Initial Areas of Interest

Advanced Tracking Collars

Activity monitoring

Safe habitat area protection

Automatic alert systems.

Anti-poaching ‘Mission Specific

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or drones)

Technology and supporting communications.

– Specifically developed, rapid response equipment:

4x4s, UAVs, Helicopters

Rangers’ and Wardens’ Equipment

Training

Night Vision Capability

Intelligence Gathering and Management

Tactics/strategy analysis.

Challenging Researchers

IWB will endeavour to challenge key ‘game changing’ players, to achieve its stated aims to improve/change animal protection laws and practices by Commissioning academic research, studies and reports, for example:

How can poachers’ patterns of activity be mapped and ‘predicted?’

What is the best way to ensure safe protection zones without fences?

How can large areas be effectively patrolled?

Promoting Legal Redress

CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora) has been in force since 1975. CITES now has some 181 signatory States, but yet the trade in illegal animal parts is rife. How can the enforcement of CITES be improved on an international level?